ISBN:
9780333619926
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (391 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Women in France Since 1789 : The Meaning of Difference
DDC:
305.4094409034
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Susan K. Foley traces the changes in women's lives in France from 1789 to the present, examining debates over gender and the anxiety created by women's perceived departure from ideals of womanhood. Foley at Victoria University of Wellington, and Principal Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, Vic
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The French Revolution and Gender Politics - Creating a World of Difference; Part I: The Social Structures of Difference: The Nineteenth-Century Gender Order; Part II: Sex and Citizenship, 1814-1914; Part III: Women in the Era of the Great Wars, 1890-1944; Part IV: Transformations and Continuities, 1945-2003; Conclusion: Equality and 'Difference' - Women's Lives from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century; Notes; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
